Credit Underwriter II - Global Wealth & Investment Management

Job Description:

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Job Description:
This job is responsible for analyzing and interpreting a client's credit worthiness, evaluating credit risks, and writing credit approval memos for annual renewals and new lending opportunities. Key responsibilities include analyzing qualitative and quantitative data such as client's financials, projections, industry data, covenant compliance, and collateral appraisals to ensure compliance with the bank's risk appetite.

The Credit Underwriter II is aligned with the Credit Advisor in their goal of developing new custom lending relationships with strategic wealth clients.

Job expectations include completing regular monitoring and underwriting tasks and supporting key internal stakeholders to achieve successful execution of new transactions.  Transactions include commercial real estate, yacht, unsecured, Treasury Management, and Corporate Bankcards.

Responsibilities:

• Analyzes client's financial performance by comparing it to past performance, projections, and industry standards

• Reviews financial statements, assesses the client's compliance with financial covenants, and renews risk ratings, while recommending changes as warranted

• Assists in the underwriting, credit risk analysis, negotiation, and closing of new transactions or existing transactions, while adhering to all relevant policies and procedures

• Evaluates transaction and relationship risk-adjusted profitability to facilitate the allocation of capital

• Identifies, escalates, and debates data quality, regulatory, and/or policy breach issues, while delivering accurate and consistent data

• Builds projection models for the client (as needed) based on historical performance, industry forecasts, and other due diligence findings

• Trains, coaches, and mentors Credit Analysts

• Identify and recommend process improvements

• Maintains asset quality within the defined Global Wealth and Investment Management risk appetite limits

Required Qualifications:

• 3 - 5 years of commercial and/or private wealth management credit experience

• Strong financial analysis, accounting skills, and deal structuring for borrowers with complex balance sheets and income streams

• Strong negotiation and communication skills

• Organized and detail oriented with ability to multi-task, with prior experience in a high-volume production environment

• Proficiency in Word, Excel and PowerPoint

• Excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to build business partnerships with risk, services and client teams who may not be co-located

Desired Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in business administration, finance, accounting or economics preferred

• Formal Credit Training and/or Commercial/Wealth Management credit experience preferred

Skills:

• Analytical Thinking

• Financial Analysis

• Financial Forecasting and Modeling

• Profitability Analysis

• Research Analysis

• Attention to Detail

• Business Acumen

• Credit and Risk Assessment

• Underwriting

• Written Communications

• Collaboration

• Critical Thinking

• Portfolio Analysis

• Prioritization

• Technical Documentation

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